Practical Tips For Small Businesses

As all business owners know, traffic is the lifeblood of your website. Without it, you’re dead. So we are putting together TIPS which we’ve found to work and which cost you nothing.
Please leave a comment especially with stuff that’s worked for you that we can add to this list to help others.

Thank you
Cliff
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TIP #1  –  Your Facebook Fan Page

TIP #2  –  Use Your Facebook Fan Page To Get More Traffic

TIP #3  –  How To Create Your Facebook Fan Page

TIP #4  –  Our Most Important And Valuable Tip

TIP #5  –  Connect With Your Facebook Fans

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Starting in Australia in 2002 for scuba divers and skydivers, traveljunkies now includes accommodation, activities, vacations and lots of other things right around the world.

Scuba Diving in Columbia

Check out diving in Columbia
http://scubatravel.co.uk/americas/colombia.html

Colombia is now much safer than it once was. It has diving in both the Caribbean and Pacific

See these testimonials and many others . . .

Providencia Island
“The most beutiful place I have ever been. There are many places to rent a boat and diving equipment. Cost may vary from season to season. I went in high season (Dec-Jan) and the price is approx $50 for one dive. Much better than other places such as Costa Rica. Not only the diving is amazing but the island is magical.”
Paula

Gorgona Island
” Gorgona island, until 1985, was a jail; it’s now a sanctuary. The land tours are great and you wlll see sharks, sea lions, dolpins, whale sharks, Whales (sometimes) and its not over populted with tourists. Gorgona was awesome, As good as the Galapagos. Colombia is more safe than the media would have you believe. ”
Mark Infanger

Great New English Sweet Shop in Spain


You really must visit this great new English sweet shop if you’re in the south east corner of Spain.

It’s the new venture of Wendy Brown formerly from Barnham in West Sussex UK, who is also a well known Shiatsu practitioner.

 

 

 

 

In her shop you’ll find the old style “sweets in a jar” with a wide range of delicious sweets and candies.

And if you’re in the mood, or have an ache or pain that needs attending to, talk to her nicely about a trial Shiatsu session, and I mean nicely, because she’s also a Karate instructor.

You’ll find her shop La Vida Dulce in the little village of Albox up in the hills behind Mojacar and and a worthwhile drive from Cartagena and Almeria.

Go on – spoil yourselves and say hello to Wendy for me.

Cliff Chapman
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Confessions of an Oktoberfest Waiter

We are almost a week into Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany and MSNBC offers this interesting inside look at the festivities, from the perspective of the Oktoberfest waiter.
Surprisingly, the author confesses that most servers actually really enjoy American tourists.

Read more – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44582167/ns/travel-destination_travel/#.Tn4WKOzIuSo

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Massive Cruise Sale

MSC Cruises has just launched a
massive sale ahead of National Cruise Week (18-25
September), with prices starting from £349, exclusively for
Travelzoo subscribers.

-5-night Venice-Malaga taster, cruise only … £349
-Easter Med cruise w/Naples & Sicily … £659
-Med & Adriatic inc Greek isles in May … £699
-Italy, Spain & France w/free Balcony Cabin upgrade … £699
-9-nt Venice, Rhodes & Haifa winter-sun cruise … £749
-No-fly Summer France & Spain w/free cabin upgrade … £849
-Emirates cruise inc Dubai & Abu Dhabi … £899
-9-nt Christmas Med cruise inc Barcelona & Lisbon … £949

Travel dates vary by deal, but the sale ends on
25 September.

More … http://www.travelzoo.com/uk/cruise/

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World’s 12 worst tourist traps

We’ve all experienced tourst traps. Those heavily advertised attractions that turn out to be bland misrepresentations of the places we’re supposed to be seeing.

Expensive time eaters that leave us with lighter wallets and a taste of burnt coffee in our mouths.

So which are the world’s worst tourist traps?

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12 Tips for Eating Well in Italy on a Backpacker’s Budget

Italia! The land of pizza napoletana, lasagna, Parmigiano-Reggiano, proscuitto, Nebbiolo, gelato, cannolo, limoncello and some of the world’s best espresso.

But how can you eat without breaking the bank? …

Read more … http://www.vagabondish.com/eating-italy-backpacker-budget-travel/

Cliff Chapman
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SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!

SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!
You all remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb. Well………….

SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!

Oh, there’s MUCH more to know about Sheriff Joe!

Maricopa County was spending approx.$18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs.Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over,and the County Supervisors said okay.

The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who’d like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place in dog shows.

The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million. Teresa and I adopted a Weimaraner from a Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was neutered, and current on all shots, in great health, and even had a microchip inserted the day we got him.. Cost us $78.

The prisoners get the benefit of about $0..28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals..

I have long wondered when the rest of the country would take a look at the way he runs the jail system, and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and harvesting by hand.

He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides meat, and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 – $8 for the Holidays, and plant it later…. We have six trees in our yard from the Prison.

Yup, he was reelected last year with 83% of the vote.
Now he’s in trouble with the ACLU again. He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural, that has a special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wasn’t doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws, started up his hotline, and bought 4 new buses just for hauling folks back to the border. He’s kind of a ‘Git-R Dun’ kind of Sheriff.

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO

HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF

AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (In Arizona ) who created the ‘ Tent City Jail’:
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but ‘G’ movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then He Started Chain Gangs For Women So He Wouldn’t Get
Sued For Discrimination.

He took away cable TV Until he found out there was A Federal Court Order that Required Cable TV For Jails So He Hooked Up The Cable TV Again Only Let In The Disney Channel And The Weather Channel.

When asked why the weather channel He Replied, So They Will Know How Hot It’s Gonna Be While They Are Working
ON My Chain Gangs.

He Cut Off Coffee Since It Has Zero Nutritional Value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, ‘This Isn’t The Ritz/Carlton……If You Don’t Like It, Don’t Come Back.’

More On The Arizona Sheriff:

With Temperatures Being Even Hotter Than Usual In Phoenix (116 Degrees Just Set A New Record), the Associated Press Reports:
About 2,000 Inmates Living In A Barbed-Wire-Surrounded Tent Encampment At The Maricopa County Jail Have Been Given Permission To Strip Down To Their Government-Issued
Pink Boxer Shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached
138 Degrees Inside The Week Before.

Many Were Also Swathed In Wet, Pink Towels As Sweat Collected On Their Chests And Dripped Down To Their PINK SOCKS.

‘It Feels Like We Are In A Furnace,’ Said James Zanzot, An Inmate Who Has Lived In The TENTS for 1 year. ‘It’s Inhumane.’

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: ‘It’s 120 Degrees In Iraq And Our Soldiers Are Living In Tents Too, And They Have To Wear Full Battle Gear,
But They Didn’t Commit Any Crimes,So Shut Your Mouths!’

Way To Go, Sheriff!

Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes – not live in luxury until it’s time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can’t afford to have for themselves.

If you agree, pass this on.